As a concerned world participant, I feel that you need to be receptive to those you represent. In a hierarchal society like ours, where power is disproportionately and quite irrationally dispensed, you hold all the cards.
Before the election Tony Blair said:
"The scandal of Africa isn't just that thousands of people died needlessly every day. The scandal is that they die when, with the right political will and effort, we can prevent their deaths."
Your recent allocation of $674 million in American funds toward famine relief in Africa indicates your alleged political alignment with Tony Blair on this issue.
Now you have the capacity to deliver on that most solemn promise, not just to the US and UK, but to the world as a whole. With other world economic leaders at the G8 summit this year, you can use your combined financial prowess to put an end to that scandal for good.
We, denizens of this earth, can either fight you and your mass allocation of our collective political capacities, or we can choose to actively vest ourselves in your representation. With more concern for poverty than my own political justice, I choose the latter. Please, fulfill your promise, and your obligation of representation of us other humans; help Africa. Help them before you help yourself, however convoluted and unorthodox that route may be for the bourgeois.
It's our comfort or their lives. What's it going to be; your promise and obligation fulfilled, or another cordial meeting of faces to discuss inconsequentalities with an elaborate ritual of etiquette and faux-formality? I expect the latter, and I hope for the former. In a few years, I'll be able to directly participate in government, but as a minor of 15 years, my generation will have to wait a while before they hold power; in the meantime, thousands upon thousands are dying needlessly every day. As of right now, it's all up to you.
Have courage, affect change.
Geoff Mino
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